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VR Gets Full Attention at SMPTE Conference

by Chris Chinnock

A special symposium on Virtual Reality (VR) was held to open the 2015 SMPTE fall conference here in Hollywood, California. There were a number of good papers, a nice panel and some demos that …

Tags:360 Degree Cameras| Large Display Monitor| SMPTE 2015| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 44

360Heros Claims 360 Deg Camera Patent

by Bob Raikes

360Heros of the US said that it has been issued with a patent covering the multi-camera 360 video holding assemblies it has been developing. The firm said that US patent for invention number 9,152,019 …

Tags:360 Degree Cameras| Mobile Display Monitor| Patents| Vol 22 - Issue 42

Google & NYT to Give Away VR Viewers

by Bob Raikes

The New York Times said that it will collaborate with Google to distribute more than a million cardboard VR viewers to subscribers. The New York Times Magazine will release the viewers on the weekend …

VR Getting Ready for Prime Time

by Steve Sechrist

Got a Google Cardboard VR for your smartphone and looking for content? Well probably not, but Palo Alto VR content Company Jaunt is looking to help drive demand for the new 360 degree display …

Tags:360 Degree Cameras| 3D Content Creation| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 42

New Camera Systems in Support of Virtual Reality Experiences

by Norbert Hildebrand

Virtual reality is often seen as a technology that fits perfectly to gaming, video consumption and some professional applications in the visualization and training markets. Although there is a market for professional applications, the …

Tags:360 Degree Cameras| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 40

Facebook to Roll out 360-Degree Video Support

by Bob Raikes

Facebook said that it is planning to roll out support for 360º video. Details were published on the Facebook blog here.

Tags:360 Degree Cameras| Facebook/Meta

Facebook to roll out 360-Degree Videos

by Bob Raikes

Facebook, in a blog post, said that it would support 360º videos in its News Feed. There are a number of publishers sharing new 360 videos on Facebook already, including Star Wars, Discovery, GoPro, …

Tags:360 Degree Cameras| Facebook/Meta| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 38

Soccer is the First VR Broadcast

by Bob Raikes

As a test of VR, NOS of Portugal showed in VR a soccer match between FC Porto and Benfica, at the Estádio do Dragão in Porto. Customers who saw the broadcast were in the …

3IT7 And Onward to the TIME Machine…

by Bob Raikes

After the 3IT panel sessions, there was a socialising event with groups of delegates being allowed to have a look at the TiME (Tomorrow’s immersive Multimedia Experience, we think) 180° immersive environment which is …

3IT4 3D and VR Are Two Sides of the Same Coin

by Bob Raikes

The next panel was on VR and the first responder was Angus Cameron who is CEO of Vision3, a developer of 3D movies. There is a lot of buzz about VR systems and there …

JVC Steals Show With Automotive Entry

by Tom Allen

JVC Kenwood does not normally have new display products at IFA, instead focusing on audio, so we were pleasantly surprised to find enough interesting topics to take an hour of our time! The flagship …

IFA 2015 Roundup

by Tom Allen

Amazon introduced UltraHD HDR content streaming earlier in the year (High Dynamic Range Coming to Amazon Prime Instant Video This Year), but it was only available to customers using Samsung’s SUHD TVs. Now, the …